Net giants can store your non-crucial data abroad
The Times of India Published By: Pankaj Doval NEW DELHI: Your personal data, such as what you order online, or where you shop online or destinations that you go to, can be freely taken abroad and stored and processed on international servers by internet giants. They do not need to keep a mirror copy of the information in India, as had originally been stipulated in the draft bill that created the architecture of India’s personal data protection law. The Cabinet gave the nod to an updated version of the Data Protection Bill that aims to protect the rights of an individual over data he or she generates, especially erecting safeguards against the flow of sensitive information such as a person’s financial or health statistics, passwords, sexual orientation, biometric details, religious and political beliefs. The bill proposes that firms mandatorily store sensitive personal information on servers located only in India, with no mention of provision for non-sensitive data.